Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-25
COAST cULLINGs,
Devoted Principally to Wa,hin.4..
Territory and California

A corset factory has been establi.h.a
at Tacoma, w. T.
Michael Dol IN was crushed IN 49,,
on the railroad at Turlock, Cal
Dayton, w. r., is TO have 4 ma
opera house and an iron foundry.
There are now 227 Indians ON n.
Skokomish (W. To- Indian agency
The Grow Indians pre caas;r.
trouble on their reservation in MA.
tana.
A young man named Frederict
Litchgold was run over and killed h.
train near MERGED, Cal.
The safe OF the o. r. IN. Cam.
psny's freight office was blown into :,
Colfax, w. T., and over $1,000 stolen
The Port Townsend Argus il 10 h
made morning paper, with late dis.
patches, to be issued every morning at
8 o'clock except Monday morning,
The little eight-year old daughter AZ
Mr.. Thomas, an employe OF the o. 8
L. at Poatello, Idaho, was run over bv
freight train and mangled to death
During the past month the United
States branch mint at San Francisco
coined the sum of 81, 200 900, the bull
of which, or $3.50, 600, was in eagles
About $4,000 has been subscribed 10
date for the erection in Golden Gate
park, San Francisco, of a monument
to the memory Of Rev. Thomas Starr
King.
Gertrude, 13-year old daughter OF
VIM. Moritt, while picking walnuts At
Napa, Cal, fell from a tree and died in
two hours from conclusion OF the
brain.
There are now in the Pacific North.
west twenty-one Young Mems Chris.
tian Associations, including eight col
lege associations, an increase OF eleven
in one year.
The schooner H. H. Knapp, while
lying at her dock at Westport, Cal.
parted her cable in heavy wind and
beat against the rocks until she was
total wreck.
| During the month Of September
Nelson Bennett drove the big Cascade
tunnel 430 feet. Mr.. Bennett claims
that this beats all previous records in
tunnel boring.
H. T. Townsend, postmaster at Town.
send, Cal, was Instantly killed while
coming down the mountain grade with
load Of pickets. The wagon over
turned, crushing him.
Fernando Condo, Mexican, stabbed
his wife at Fresno, Cal, and then cut
his own throat from ear to ear. Hs
knocked his wife down and stabbed
| her twice in the left breast over the
heart.
John Garrigan, Is years of age,
while working on the roof of a San
Francisco hotel, lost his balance and
fell to the sidewalk below He was re-
moved to the hospital, where he died
r soon after.
The Canadian Pacific has prison
car with four separate cells and guard
room, all stoutly ironed and capable OF
standing a siege from without or a
. munity from within. The Car is used
} to transport prisoners from the Pacific
Coast to the Kingston penitentiary.
The Dayton Inlander relates case
wherein an Indian acted the savage OF
old, frightened all the women folks
out of their house and declared him
, self chief, until Rev. ]. B. Chamber
lain appeared upon the scene and
horsewhipped the scoundrel, who then
!. fled.
A Yakima paper says: Information
3 has been received that saltpeter has
: been scattered over the range on the
= Wenas, as is supposed, for the purpose
OF killing the sheep that range there
against the wishes of the cattle rangers.
, Some twenty horses ate OF it and died
from the effects.
/ After ten years search, Capt. Gee
, has discovered the wreck of the steamer
! Brother Jonathan, lost twenty-five
, years ago. The wreck lies two miles
south Of Northwest Seal Rock, elsh'
: teen miles northwest from Crescent
City, Cal. She struck on rock not
, down on the chart.
; B. F. Wade, an Englishman about
40 years of age. living near Falrplay'
Cal, met with horrible death. he
H., had evidently been killed by tree
) which he had cut down, falling upon
him. The body bad been eaten by
hogs, and nothing but the bones and
portions OF clothing could be found
| week later.
r The excitement continues over the
. rich placer diggings discovered in the
t Blue Mountains, south of Nogals' A.
| T. One nugget is valued at $l2oo.
Mexican came in with sack OF mug
E gets ranging in value from $looo 70
$500. Many prospectors have gone &c
the scene on foot and other parties are
going in vehicles.